The revised total for winning bids in this month’s Gulf of Mexico lease sale was about $21 million more than initially ...

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million ...

A unit of BP Plc was the high bidder in a US auction for oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, the first sale ...

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...

Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the ...

Aug. 19 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday unveiled its long-term schedule for new Alaskan and Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas leases that are part of President Donald Trump's ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - BP, Woodside Energy and Chevron were the top winners on Wednesday at the U.S. government's first sale of ...

A contentious issue that's been fought off several times over the decades, drilling off the Southwest Florida coast is not a popular idea here.

A lawsuit claims the Trump administration has broken laws with a planned sale of 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas interests.

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.